Hello Praveen,

Currently web-based interaction is only used for external data sources (biomart, UCSC table browser, most other things under "Get Data"). For the other tools, we generate a command line based on the user input, which Galaxy then runs. The motivation for this is control and trust. One of our major goals with Galaxy is to ensure reproducibility, and relying on web services which can change their interfaces or behavior makes this very challenging. We are certainly interested in supporting web services in the Galaxy framework, but implementation is not yet under way. Several of the methods currently in ~/tools/__init__.py ( among others ) will need to evolve and grow in order to support a web services interface for remote tools. We'll certainly keep you informed as we begin to support this, but it may be a while...

Greg Von Kuster Galaxy Development Team

Praveen Agrawal wrote:

Hi, I am trying to use Galaxy at my site and cann't figure out Galaxy with web services. I understand that it's possible to integrate a data source using WSDL/SOAP. Is the same possible for a remote tool as well?

Regards, Praveen

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